The slaveholders of the South have bought the coöperation of the Western country by the bribe of the Western lands, abandoning to the new Western States their own proportion of this public property, and aiding them in the design of grasping all the lands in their own hands.
Quincy describes how Southern slaveholders manipulate Western interests through land deals.
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Texas and slavery are interwoven in every banner floating on the Democratic breeze. 'Freedom or death' should be inscribed on ours.
The argument for the annexation, or reännexation, of Texas is as gross an imposture as ever was palmed upon the credulity of an honest people.
He knew how little a majority of the men of his own time were disposed or qualified to estimate his character with justice.
May the Ruler of the universe preserve you from such degradation! 'Freedom!
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